Industries

Manufacturing

ThaiNamthip in joint venture for Laos' first Coca-Cola bottling plant

Lao Coca-Cola Bottling Co, a joint venture between ThaiNamthip and Laotian company PT Sole Co, has announced the inauguration of the first Coca-Cola bottling plant in Laos. The plant, located in Saithani district of Vientiane province, will produce sparkling beverages for the Laotian market, including Coca-Cola, ...

Gov't eyes industrial expansion

In search of Cambodia’s next economic growth driver, the government on 26 August laid out the Cambodia Industrial Development Policy 2015-2025, which aims to expand the Kingdom’s narrow industrial base beyond garments and rice. The new policy, launched by Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace ...

Big plans brewing for Myanmar beer

Myanmar’s largest beer maker, military-owned Myanmar Brewery Ltd., aims to increase its annual production by 50 percent in the years ahead, the company announced on 26 August. Following a recent partnership with Japan’s Kirin Holdings, the company’s chairman Nay Win said the new joint venture will try ...

Labour shortages in Sihanoukville

Aiming to one day become a major manufacturing base in Cambodia, Sihanoukville faces an uphill battle in attracting workers, provincial officials have said. Yow Khemara, director of the Department of Labour and Vocational Training at Preah Sihanouk province, said Sihanoukville currently lacks about 4,000 workers in ...

Chinese steel may flood Vietnam market

After the strong depreciation of the Chinese yuan, steel industry insiders have warned local steel producers that Chinese steel products could flood the Vietnamese market, causing difficulties for them. Vice-Chairman of the Vietnam Steel Association Nguyen Van Sua said although in recent years, the local steel ...

Vietnam's garment firms look to Europe

Enterprises from Hanoi hope to find more business opportunities in the textile, garment and footwear industries in Eastern European countries in the future. At a seminar on encouraging trade between Hanoi and the Czech Republic held in Prague on 20 August, Le Hong Thang, director of ...

Japan charts road to industrialization for Mekong region

Japan and the five Southeast Asian countries bordering the Mekong River adopted a blueprint on 24 August to boost industrialization in the subregion. The blueprint, known as “The Mekong Industrial Development Vision,” got the thumbs-up during a meeting between Japan’s Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry Yoichi ...

Garment tool makers size up Cambodia

Industrial technology companies from across Asia expect garment manufacturers to turn to mechanization as a way to supplement human labor power in Cambodia.  At the Kingdom’s fifth annual International Textile and Garment Industry Exhibition, representatives showed off advanced sewing machines, automatic embroidering tools and even an ...

China factory index hits 6-year low

A key indicator of China’s manufacturing activity slumped to a 77-month low in August, an independent survey showed on 21 August, fuelling concerns of further deceleration in the world’s second-largest economy. The preliminary reading of Caixin’s Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) came in at 47.1 this month, ...

Vietnam's steel output reaches highest in a decade

Building steel output in July reached 613,000 tonnes, posting 51.5 per cent increase over the same period last year and marking the record high in the past 10 years, said the Vietnam Steel Association. Keep reading ...

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